[ale] Kernel 2.4 Released

[krugerb at benning.army.mil (Bob Kruger)]

"Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:25:55AM -0500, Bob Kruger wrote:
> > Richard Storey wrote:

> using appropriate calls which can support them.  I'm not sure if that was
> backported into the 2.2.x kernels or not.  IIRC, I think it was.
> 
>         Big problem always was "lseek()" which required a "long" for the
> seek parameter.  That broke at 2 Gig.  Anything else using or returning a
> long for a file position indicator was broken.  Applications supporting
> long files (>2Gig) need to use calls like lseek64 and open64 to support
> long-long (64 bit) file position pointers.  Then your limit is something
> like 4 TB.


Interesting.

I am running Slack v7.1.  I just compiled the new kernel and installed. 
I then recompiled Samba after doing a "make distclean", and configure
did not pick up that large files could be used.  I am wondering what to
do to get this enabled.  I don't need it right now, but I would hate to
have to find out the hard way when I do....

Regards - Bob Kruger
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